Who says a yard sale can't be a party.

My grandmother (Grammy) on my mom's side lives in Lake Tahoe California. She has been living alone for a while there since my grandfather passed away and it is a lot of work for her. The winters there are very difficult and she needs to move. She has a lifetime of accumulated stuff that needs to find new homes and so myself along with my mom and sisters took a plane out there to help out. She had a yard sale. I was surprised at how much actually sold. She made I think about $500. She has a lot more to go through and another sale I believe is on the horizon. It was wonderful to be able to go out there and visit her. Jamie watched Matthew so that we could be uninhibited in our work. It was great to see Grammy again. Hopefully we can help her move so that she can have a little more support possibly closer to us.

This is what the yard looked like at the beginning of the sale.

She had a lot of clothing to sell.

This is the view of the yard from the deck. A lot of it had been sold already.

I decided to bring along my jewelry and see if it would sell also. I actually had quite a few of my items sell. Sadly I even had some stolen.

Mom Stayed for a full 2 weeks and helped Grammy a lot. I don't think we could have done the sale without Mom's help.

Every year Grammy spends countless hours and a lot of energy raking pine needles from her yard. Meagan was determined to rake them for her. Amy and Shelby helped out too. It was amazing how many there were. I think they filled up 20 bags.

Grammy spent some time teaching us how to make her ground beef and cheese stuffed rolls. It was fun to learn the recipe of a dinner I had eaten so many times at her home.

Here we are stuffing the rolls and wrapping them in foil for the oven.

Mom said she would be very upset if this picture ended up on a blog. I guess I am in trouble. Mom, you are pretty even just after a shower with ice cream in your mouth.

Grammy went all out buying us cartons of ice cream so that we could all have banana splits.

Lounging around the house after a long day at the yard sale.

We all pitched in to clean up after dinner and had a great time joking around.

Grammy had been complaining of a lot of back and hip pain during the yard sale. One night I spent about an hour giving her a massage.

I started out massaging her in her chair and we quickly moved to the floor so that I could give her a full massage.

She was so much better afterwards. I am glad I was able to make a difference for her.

Before we left Grammy gave us our pick of nail polish and we all spent the morning before our flight painting our nails. We had a blast and I was so happy to be able to spend the weekend with Grammy, Mom and my sisters.